You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 142.

Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast.

It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food.

You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life.

And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple

tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it.

Hi. Hello. I am so glad that you're here today. Let's jump right in and talk about accepting and forgiving

and excusing binges. This topic comes up every now and then as I'm coaching in my group

program, so I thought it would be a good one to address here on the podcast. One thing that I teach

in the process of stopping binge eating is to accept binges when they happen.

So you accept that it happened, you forgive yourself for the mistake, and you be kind to yourself.

Because your other option is to be upset with yourself and to beat yourself up about it.

Now, I think it's normal to be upset if you binge.

Most people do feel disappointed after a binge, but how long you stay there is up to you.

So I suggest that you shift into forgiveness, acceptance, and kindness sooner than later because staying in disappointment and beating yourself up isn't going to be useful.

It's just going to make you feel bad. Now, I know some of you think that beating yourself up

will somehow stop you from binging again, but that's not how it works. Beating yourself up only

affects you in the moment when you're beating

yourself up. That next time you binge is a completely separate moment with completely different

thoughts and feelings that are going on. I mean, do you ever feel an urge to binge and think,

well, because I beat myself up last time, I'm not going to binge right

now. I don't think so. I beat myself up many times for binging and those beatups didn't even

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